Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

11.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

12.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

15.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

18.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

22.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

25.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

30.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

35.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.